Alice+Jolly

On October 18, 1920, 30-year-old homemaker Alice Jolly (or Jolli) died at Chicago's Englewood Hospital from a criminal abortion perpetrated by somebody who was never identified.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].



 For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

 Source: [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]



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